OT: Good map print server on the web?

And then at some places on Long Island you find out that the roads and exits and stuff were designed in the days of the Ford Model-T. Any faster than 40mph and the tires start a serious screech.

Woe to those who aren't able to manage all this at 85mph+. No joke, once a car full of big mean-looking dudes was blowing an air horn at me. I also had West Virginia plates which I guess did not help. When they passed me their stereo drowned out mine despite rolled-up windows. Tchk ...tchk .. *BOOM* ...

Sometimes abbreviations in NY are a bit extreme. On the Van Wyck there's this little sign saying "LIE". That's it. It means Long Island Expressway and if you miss that you can get seriously lost.

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I make it a point to completely shun any hotel or chain that charges for Internet. Because then they'll most likely nickel and dime you for anything else. Took a little soap bar to shower? That'll be five bucks. Mini-Bar? 2000% markup on bottled water. Want breakfast? How about bacon and eggs for $49 plus tip? No joke, seen it. It seems the higher the rates per night the more charges they sneak in. Probably figuring that high-rollers do not notice.

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We've been doing quite a bit of house hunting lately so GPS has been invaluable. My cell phone works wonders, even sitting on the seat next to me. The speaker is sometimes hard to hear, though. I'll probably buy a window mount for it in the next few days. The only feature I'd like to see is routing from point-A to point-B while being at 'X'.

In VT, the Hertz place wouldn't rent RWD cars to "flatlanders" from October 1 to May 1. If they had any in their inventory (they tried to move them elsewhere), they'd upgrade anyone with a VT license to Lincolns for.

Even then it won't show the outlines of streets. But with Mapquest, copy into IrfanView, two sharpen cycles and then B/W conversion it works ok. Not great as in the good old days but useable for driving. I also make myself a small list of exits and turns for the shirt pocket. That helps a ton if you get into rush hour and other drivers are antsy. Has the client phone # on there as well in case I have to make a hands-free call because the freeway jammed up solid. Absolute requirement in Silicon Valley.

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And then you find yourself with no merge lane. On the westbound Northern Expressway to southbound 110 I took to looking north at the oncoming traffic as I came around the loop and simply timing my flooring it... I couldn't see anything when I got to the merge point.

I had Georgia plates... you should see the shocked look on their faces when I did my Arizona foot-to-the-floor-cut-em-off :-)

LIE is easy, particularly when you choose Southwest who fly into MacArthur... like landing at a '50's airport ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

With the economy, they seem to have dropped room rates (particularly on weekends) and have raised the stealth costs accordingly. It gets their advertised rates closer to the "lesser" competition. The beds aren't any more comfortable either. I find "3-stars" to be a perfectly acceptable tradeoff.

Yup. I just booked one. Other than the usual (somewhat confiscatory) city taxes no hidden charges. And breakfast is free.

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Yep.

Parking at a Newark airport hotel was $15/night. Not completely insane, but enough that it pays to look for hotels that don't charge even if they're a bit more per night.

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Well eternal-september seems to carry a.b.s.e and the price is right $0.00. =20

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I get a.b.s.e no sweat. I use Astraweb with a largish number of GB for something like $20 one time. In two years i think i have used 2 percent of that block.

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[O/T] So for a furriner visiting your east coast (Florida - GA - TN - then up the top left corner and down the other side of the St Lawrence and back to NYC) who should I target for affordable phone service (low usage) and coverage?

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I don't mind paying but last time I looked via some archive server the (useful ...) traffic on a.b.s.e. was anemic.

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Top left? Verizon has, by far, the best coverage of all carriers. If you want it cheap, get a prepaid from PagePlus (uses the Verizon network). They're $.04/min, in $80 batches. It's a no frills phone, but if that's all you need it's the way to go. Do note that any call from a US phone will cost an arm and a leg if it crosses over the border to a Canuckistani tower.

Whoops, got that back-arsewards - top RIGHT. After TN its through DC to the top RIGHT, where all the "little" states are.

On a previous trip to the west coast, we used AT&T GoPhone but weren't all that impressed with the coverage.

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No. Not back-arsewards. We westerners refer to that "little" state region as the "asshole of the nation" ;-)

AT&T is crap, at least here in the West. Verizon is great. ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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So do ex-Northeasterners.

Ditto elsewhere in the country. All of them work in the major and even not so major cities. Go 30mi outside and the story changes drastically. Whatever you do, make sure the carrier uses the Verizon network.

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Well that may be an anemic archive server. I seem to have about 80 posts since 2/22/12.

Your Choice, but don't whine.

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And Florida is the nations wang?

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I've not heard that before. In general, my experiences in Florida have been very pleasant, except for the humidity (*) in the Summer.

(*) My aversion to humidity is how I came to choose Arizona when I graduated from MIT. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             |
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.